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2013-04-112016-11-14Normalised for publication by Archives HubHB 17Records of the Southern General Hospital, Glasgow1852-2002Southern General (hospital : 1872- : Glasgow, Scotland)3 metresNHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde ArchivesEnglish

The Southern General Hospital [SGH] was originally the hospital of the Govan Poor House. Its earliest buildings were in Eglinton St. In 1872 a new 240 bed general hospital and 180 patient lunatic asylum were built at the present site. In 1902-05 major extensions provided 700 more beds. In 1912 Govan was absorbed into Glasgow Parish. Between 1912 and 1948 the SGH (which adopted that name in 1923) was run by Glasgow Parish Council and then by Glasgow Corporation. Upgrading of the hospital's facilities, in the form of a multiplicity of medium-sized projects, began in the 1950s and was capped with the opening of a new Maternity Unit in 1970 and the completion of the Institute of Neurological Sciences in 1972. Between 1948 and 1974 responsibility for the SGH rested with the Board of Management for Glasgow South Western Hospitals and in 1974 it was transferred to the South Western District of the Greater Glasgow Health Board. In 1992 the Southern General Hospital NHS Trust was created.

This collection contains records from a number of [south-side] Glasgow VD Clinics which were uplifted from the SGH Genitourinary Medicine Department. In 1948 these clinics [with the possible exception of Broomielaw] came under the control of the Glasgow Victoria Hospitals BOM. In the 1950s/60s the reduction in the number of cases treated led to the closure of a number of these clinics. In 1968 a new VD clinic opened in the SGH [and most of the services on the south-side were transferred there]. The SGH Dept. closed in June 2000 and its services were transferred to the new facility at the old Glasgow Eye Infirmary building.

The Clinical Society of the Southern General Hospital was formed in 1945 for the purpose of holding clinical meetings and discussions. The Medical Staff Association [MSA] was formed in 1950 to represent hospital medical staff in discussions with NHS management: thereafter the Clinical Society functioned under the auspices of the MSA. Staff of Darnley Hospital, David Elder Infirmary, Elder Cottage Hospital and Shieldhall Hospital were eligible to join the Medical Staff Association and participate in its activities.

Registers of operations conducted at Killearn Hospital (to 1972) and at the Southern General Hospital thereafter. Information supplied includes: date of operation; date of admission; name of patient; patient’s age; ward; time operation commenced and concluded; name of surgeon, anaesthetist and sister; nature of operation and remarks

These conference notes were accessioned from the private papers of Professor Sir Michael Bond in April 2010. Professor Bond succeeded Professor Ferguson Rodger as the Professor of Psychological Medicine in the 1970s.

These case notes contain details of patients of the Department of Psychological Medicine, who merited further diagnosis or treatment, and to use as material for teaching, from 1954-1963. They contain patient age, unit no., date of conference, details of their case, and the discussion notes from the conference. Each conference provided discussion for one patient and there are notes for 209 patients. Most of the individual case notes have the signature of the chairing physician. From the late 1950s, RD Laing features as a contributing physician.

144 patients. Contains an index of patients listed chronologically. Contained post it markers for cases Prof Bond used for a presentation in 2008 titled Back to the Future (flier included). These were found on the following pages: 4 (this particular case contained the Orestes Complex), 27, 29, 32, 43, 48, 53, 54, 59, 61, 65, 68, 73, and 77. These cases were used to illistrate the predominance of psychoanalytic thought in Glasgow mid 20th century.